The ANZPT Perth 2012 has been decided and for the first time the trophy will be staying in Perth.Mathew Carlsson outlasted 309 players to become the 2012 ANZPT Champion winning$78,275.

Mathew let out a huge cheer when he realised he was champion. The 22 year old plays regularly here at Burswood and had a strong contingent supporting him throughout today’s play. In fact with five of the nine players from Perth, the rail was packed and every hand was met with raucous reactions from a very partisan crowd.

The final hand of the tournament took place after over an hour of heads up play between Carlsson and Anthony Marenko, another Perth local. The lead had gone back and forth between the two players but Carlsson had begun to dominate, having a four to one chip lead before the last hand. It was Carlsson’s pair of sevens against Marenko’s king two offsuit and the board was no help to Marenko. Carlsson with his sevens took down his first major tournament title.

The ANZ Player of Year saw some movement at the top of the table. A great result for Canberra’sAnthony Aston has seen him take a big lead at the top of the table. This is Aston’s second 3rd place finish, this time he takes home $27,590. Anthony’s room mate for the trip has also moved up the standings, Didier Guerin has moved into third place. A cash in ANZPT Sydney has been follwed here in Perth with a sixth place finish for $13,950. The winner of the ANZ Player of the Year receives sponsorship to the APPT. For more details click here

The next event where players can earn points is the ANZPT POY Winter Poker Tournament fromJune 9-11 with a $1,100 buy-in at Casino Canberra. The top ten players will receive points toward theANZ Player of the Year.

The ANZPT Perth 2012 has been a great week of poker with more players taking part than ever before. The 310 players built a prize pool of $310,000 with some big names making the trip to take part. There was Team PokerStars PRO Bryan Huang, Australian Poker Hall of Fame member Leo Boxell, ANZPT Sydney Champion Gordon Huntly and Aaron Benton.

Head to the PokerStars Blog for the all the details of the tournament.

For the ANZPT Perth 2012 Payouts download here

For the ANZ Player of the Year table download here

Hoang Anh Do has just been crowned the PokerStars.net APPT Cebu 2012 Champion. After three days of play he has out lasted 245players to claim the title.

Hoang Anh Do is the first APPT Champion to come from Vietnamand he will take home PHP 5,927,000. Hoang Anh Do is a 27 year old banker who came to Cebu to holiday on the beaches but thought he would also like to give the APPT a try, having only taken up poker six months ago. He has certainly started in style.

In contrast to the long back and forth drama when play was three handed the heads up battle was a relatively short affair. The end came with a pre-flop raise from Do being called by Nick Wong. The flop showed 5d 8d 5s and Wong raised to 220,000which was quickly called by Do. Both players checked the 4s turn and when the Ah hit the river Do checked and Wong announced all-in. After a lengthy deliberation Do called and showed As 8s for two pair. Out doing Wong’s Ad 10h.

For all the results from the PokerStars.net APPT Cebu 2012 click here

There were two side events which took place today. The PHP 25,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Deepstack is still in progress. There were 94 entrants making for a prize pool of PHP 2,051,550. The other event has been completed. The PHP 250,000 buy-in High Roller saw 14 take part for a prize pool of PHP 3,191,900. Due to a deal done there were four places paid.

1st Alan Engel – Canada – PHP 1,200,000
2nd Marcus Lau – Malaysia – PHP 1,200,000
3rd Mike Marvanek – Australia – PHP 600,000
4th David Steicke – Hong Kong – PHP 191,300

Head to the PokerStars Blog for the all the details of todays play.

Day 2 of the PokerStars.net APPT Cebuhas come to a close as the bubble burst.

The unlucky player who achieved the ignominious title of ‘bubble boy’ was Mikko Turtiainen from Finland. A spontaneous cheer erupted around the room as the remaining players realised they were in the money. They can now go relax and enjoy the player party which is taking place tonight at Cebu’s premier nightclub.

The chip leader Amit Varma from India has amassed a very impressive 545,500chips. Amit has had a few good results in the Pokerguru Tour and Indian Poker Championship but this is his first time he has gone deep in a major poker tournament outside of the sub-continent.

There is daylight between him and the number two in chps. Ho Anh Do the lone representative of Vietnam has 330,000chips.

There is one woman remaining but do not count her out. Hui-chen (Kitty) Kuo has done exceptionally well in the last few years. From Taiwan, Kitty was the 2009 Asian Player of the Year and her most recent result was in the last APPT, the APPT Seoul High Roller Event where she came third.

Other players to watch for tomorrow, include: Antoine Amourette with 195,000, he has made the final table of the APPT Sydney 2010 and also has a second place finish in a WPT event. There is ANZPT Canberra 2011 Champion Sammy Huang with 214,500 in chips and Daoxing (Bobo) Chen with172,000 chips. Bobo is from China and saw success in APPT Macau 2009 where he came third.

Some of the notable players to miss out today included: the remaining Team PokerStars PROs Vivien Im, Celina Lin and Raymond Wu, Filipino poker legend Wally Sombero, the reigning Asian Player of the Year Hung Sheng ‘Shaq’ Lin and the reigning ANZ Player of the Year Danny Chevalier.

For a list of all players remaining, their chip counts and table draw for Day 3 click here

There was a host of side event action taking place today alongside the Main Event. The Knock Out Bounty saw 109 players sit down to make a $2,309,710 PHP prizepool. Play was down to the final table at the time this report was sent and full results will be available tomorrow’.

The Ladies Event was hotly contested by 12 women, with Team PokerStars PRO Vivien Im leading the charge. The eventual winner was Tei Yoshikawa from Japan.

For a list of all the winners click here

Head to the PokerStars Blog for the all the details of todays play.

Day 1B of PokerStars.net APPT Cebu 2012 has come to a close. Today saw an increase on yesterday’s field with 76players sitting down. By the end of play today only 42 remained.

The chip leader is Antonio Martins with119,000 chips. Julian Hasse from Germany is not far behind with 97,600chips and there is a big gap between these two and the rest of the field.

There were 25 nations represented at the tables from as far a field as Canada and Sweden but the big majority have come in from across Asia.

While there were only seven women in today’s field they are some of the most feared poker players in Asia. Led by the defending champion Team Poker Stars PRO Vivien Im who finished with 9,400chips and her fellow Team PokerStars PRO, Celina Lin who ended the day with18,000 chips.

Joining those two formible poker talents was PokerStars Sponsored Player Cathy Hong who unfortunately was not able to make it through to Day 2. There was also Jay Tan fresh from her fourth place finish in the lastMacau Poker Cup who also did not manage to keep her good run going.

Winning the Asian Player of the Year or the ANZ Player of the Year is proof that a player is at the peak of their skill as a poker player so it was no surprise that both Hung Sheng ‘Shaq’ Lin, 19,800chips and Danny Chevalier, 25,000 chips came through today’s play unscathed.

Some of the other big names to get through today included: Huo Chen (Kitty) Kuo from Taiwan with49,500 chips, Daoxing (Bobo) Chen from China with 67,900 and Daren Yoon from Malaysia with12,000 chips in play.

For a list of the survivors and their chip counts click here

Head to the PokerStars Blog for the all the details of todays play.